Anne Neville, 16th Countess of Warwick

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Anne Neville (born Anne Beauchamp ; * 1426 ; † 1492 ) was the daughter of Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick , and Isabel le Despenser, 5th Baroness Burghersh .

Relatives, marriage and children

Anne was the sister of Henry de Beauchamp, 1st Duke of Warwick . After her father died in 1439, her brother in 1445 and her niece also died in 1448/49 , she became their inheritance and inherited the associated title that her husband Richard Neville de iure uxoris now held.

The marriage had two daughters: Isabella and Anne , whom her father wanted to marry off to the brothers Edward IV , George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence , and Richard, Duke of Gloucester . Since Warwick had played a decisive role in Edward IV's accession to the throne, the king's refusal to approve these marriages led, along with other serious upheavals, to the final break between Warwick and Edward IV. Anne and the two children accompanied him into exile in France in 1469. Isabella married the also apostate Duke of Clarence in the same year, the younger daughter was with Edward of Westminster , the son of Henry VI. , married.

The fall of the House of Neville

After the brief restoration of the Lancaster royal family in 1470/71, Anne's son-in-law George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, defected to Edward IV, then her husband fell in the Battle of Barnet . Her second son-in-law Edward of Westminster died in the decisive Battle of Tewkesbury . Anne then fled to the church asylum in Beaulieu Abbey . As a result, the property of the Beauchamp family, which she had brought into the marriage through her inheritance, was withdrawn from her. Plantagenet occupied the ruined property of the Neville family and, on behalf of his wife, also claimed the rights to his mother-in-law's property. He became an opponent through his brother Richard, Duke of Gloucester, who married Anne's daughter of the same name ( Anne Neville ) in 1472 , so that now two brothers, together with two sisters, raised claims against each other to the goods of their mother and mother-in-law who were still alive.

Fight for their property in vain

Anne was not allowed to leave the sanctuary and petitioned the King, Queen Elizabeth Woodville , the King's mother, Cecily Neville , the Queen's mother, Jacquetta of Luxembourg , the King's eldest daughter, Elizabeth of York , the sisters of Königs, Anne, Duchess of Exeter , and Elisabeth, Duchess of Suffolk , as well as other leading ladies of the kingdom. She hoped to obtain intercession from some of those who were written to, as Cecily Neville, Jacquetta von Luxemburg and Anne Plantagenet, for example, all had to struggle to keep their property even after their husbands' death or expropriation. But she won no decisive support, even if she was transferred from church asylum to Middleham, formerly owned by the Nevilles and now owned by the Duke of Gloucester, in 1473.

Her petitions to parliament were also unsuccessful, and in May 1474 the same declared that it should be proceeded in this way, i.e. whether the countess had died ( ... as if the said Countess were now naturally dead ). Anne's inheritance has now been finally divided between her sons-in-law.

1484 an annual amount of ₤ 80 to Anne is proven. She doesn't seem to have been in captivity at this time, and her money didn't come from one of her previous estates, but from Richard III's environment. Anne no longer married, survived her daughters and sons-in-law and several grandchildren. She died at the age of 66. The title passed to her grandson Edward .

progeny

  1. ∞ Edward of Westminster ,
  2. ∞ Richard III.

swell

  1. ^ History of the Life and Times of Richard III , J. Gairdner, Cambridge, 1898, 22
  2. ↑ Rotuli Parliamentorum , (6 volumes Record Commission, 1832), v and vi
  3. ↑ British Library Harleian Manuscript 433 , editors PW Hammond and RE Horrox (4 volumes), Upminster, 1979-1983, i.171, 192; iii.155

literature

  • Michael Hicks : Anne Neville, Queen to Richard III , Tempus Publishing Limited, Stroud, Gloucestershire 2006, ISBN 0-7524-3663-5
  • Michael Hicks: Richard III and his Rivals: Magnates and Their Motives during the Wars of the Roses . Hambledon, London 1991, ISBN 1-85285-053-1
predecessor Office successor
Anne Beauchamp Countess of Warwick
1449-1492 		Edward Plantagenet
personal data
SURNAME Neville, Anne, 16th Countess of Warwick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beauchamp, Anne 16. Countess of Warwick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Daughter of Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick and Isabella Despenser
DATE OF BIRTH 1426
DATE OF DEATH 1492